Microsoft Azure Portal + Ubuntu
Now with some time under my belt working with Microsoft’s Azure Cloud and getting some understanding of the Portals interface…
cowsay and lolcat – more Ubuntu shell commands
If you read my article about fortune, I mention cowsay and lolcat towards the end of that article. I decided…
fortune – Unix/Linux Shell Goody
"You are WRONG, you ol' brass-breasted fascist poop!" -- Bloom County (fortune) fortune is a little program that I install…
There’s a Cursor in My Browser
A little problem started bugging me a few weeks ago. Every once in while when browsing web pages there would…
Internet Architecture for Beginners – What are Tiers?
I’ve spent 35+ years of building and deploying internet facing web sites. The front end load balancers and web servers…
Linux shell commands I use daily
In day to day administration we as system administrators have literally thousands of commands to choose from to keep our…
fail2ban for Ubuntu – ssh port security
fail2ban is a tool in the Ubuntu repository which helps in securing your internet facing ssh port. It uses a…
Tripwire for Ubuntu
Tripwire is a file integrity checking tool. It’s primary function is notify you of any changes made to files or…
Microsoft Azure Cloud – Installing an Ubuntu VM
After agreeing to the Microsoft End User Agreement blurbs, applying for your free Microsoft Azure Cloud Portal account and taking…
Installing Mediawiki with Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate Part 2
This is Part 2 of the Mediawiki with Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate installation guide. In part one we covered the…